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It! published in Gem (around 1980) New job. He arrives seven minutes before the hour, suit, tie,haircut, the moustache shorn away. Gonna make it this time. Honest, Honey. From hereon it's hard work and a straight career. I'll never write another short story Jeanella
On the edge of my home town where the Baltimore and Ohio tracks run along the highway, finally intersecting it at an unguarded crossing, there used to be a lonely shack of a building that contained a rather famous tavern. It stood in the midst of a great swampy prairie that since has been subdivided and covered all over with respectable suburban houses. The people in them run their lawnmowers and raise their flags and polish their cars every sunny Saturday; not one in a hundred ever heard of the Poinsetta Lounge and the things that went on inside. What went on, of course, was the whores. To Clothe
the Naked There was a wind that afternoon; it came straight off the lake
and brought
the chill factor down to zero. When Deidrich turned onto Jackson Street
and saw the beggar, his first thought was of his own good fortune--to
be
employed, married to a wise woman, warmly housed, and the owner of
several
damned good winter coats. copyright@paulpekin2001
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